Are you calling app/views/test.php directly? Or are you using index.php with a route/controller? Can you show your code to render the view?

barryvdh said:

Are you calling app/views/test.php directly? Or are you using index.php with a route/controller? Can you show your code to render the view? Hi barryvdh,

1. yes , i'm calling the page directly on localhost/myLaravel/app/views/test.php.
2. no, i did not use a route/controller. but i use your idee to create a new testDbController.php under folder app/controllers , however i does'n help for me.

You need to use a route and/or controller so that Laravel is booted and all the necessary resources are loaded, simply accessing the view.php will only run that script and won't load any of the Laravel system, hence DB class not being found.

You should set /public to your document root so that all requests are rewritten to the index.php and so are processed by Laravel.

Create a route in your routes.php

Route::get('/testdb', ['uses' => 'TestDbController@testDB');

Then load http://localhost/testdb (after you've set /public as your document root)

I suggest reading the docs (http://laravel.com/docs/4.2) and following some beginner tutorials, perhaps on https://laracasts.com